Re: DataGuard and closed/cold backups

I'm helping out a sister company who needs to send a copy of their
database to a vendor.  They tried a hot backup, and it apparently was
deemed unreadable by the vendor...  So by the time the request came to
me, they had already decided to do a cold backup and send that out.=20
I'm just trying to avoid having them take the production database down
to do it, as this will create more problems than it's worth...

Thanks very much for the info!

-Jackie

On 5/29/05, Carel-Jan Engel <cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jacky,
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> Why on earth would you take a cold backup these days?=20
> It is probably not a problem, the only issue I see is you have to activat=
e
> the database after mounting it as a standby database. I have never tried =
it,
> though, because I cannot see the point of taking a cold backup. So, again=
,
> why not take a hot backup?
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> Best regards,
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> Carel-Jan Engel
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> If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok)
> =3D=3D=3D=20
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> On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 00:05, The Oracle wrote:=20
> Well, I've R'd the FMs, and can't seem to find a clear answer - as I'm
new
> to DataGuard, I need your help! :-)

I've been asked what the ramifications
> of doing a cold backup on a
physical standby database would be, rather than
> taking the primary
database offline. I didn't see anything in the docs that
> suggest this
is a bad idea, but thought I'd check with the experts... In
> practice
it seems simple, but will there be any issues starting up/running
> an
instance off of the file copies, since before the shutdown it wasn't
the
> primary?

Any help/advice you can provide would be
> appreciated!

Thanks,
Jackie
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